In Appalachia people have learned that going green isn't all about what you have to give up, but it can make your life richer. The Central Appalachian Network hatched hundreds of new businesses, and inspired many more to a shift to local, organic sales.

Investment in energy projects will total $16 trillion in the next two decades. Sarah van Gelder lays out over a dozen sustainable energy policies and technologies that can make our infrastructure more climate friendly.

Ecuador's president Rafael Correa offered to
stop development of one of the country's largest oil reserves
in exchange for debt relief. The ITT oil fields, located within
Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, have become the center of an
experiment that could bring equity and human rights into the
climate equation.

Next to nuclear war, the climate crisis may be the biggest challenge ever to confront the human race. Bill McKibben lays out where we can act. To do it, he says, we need "a political swell larger than the civil rights movement."